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beanie baby dividers, made by a webmaster whose name i can't find :/ i used an online background remover to make them transparent— swing by the "free beanie graphics and animations" page to get the originals!

all about beanie babies -> https://www.angelfire.com/co3/beaniesarefun/

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little lightsabers

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stamps based on buttons from the lesbian herstory archive!! links below the cut :)

ladies liberty

lesbian solidarity

mother nature is a lesbian

how dare you presume i'm heterosexual

there are more of us than you think

the original fonts are so cool!!! unfortunately i'm not skilled enough to replicate them by hand. sorry folks.

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I explored some 90s-2000s MLP sites! Here's some cool shit I found (and my own yapping below the break)

Cizzy’s site — Collection pics, info, graphics, and adopts. The webmaster specialized in Swedish ponies. Copyright 1998. Still accessible.

Worlds Apart — Hosts a fanfic of the same title. Unsure about date of origin since update log has entries as recent as 2024. Still accessible.

Nethilia’s Stables — Documents customs, an unboxing, and The Minty Experiments (in which the webmaster disassembled a G3 Minty). Unsure about date of origin. Still accessible.

Silverfall’s Ponytopia — A reference for G3 collectors, active from 2003–2007. Includes an index of G3 figures and accessories by year and a news archive that documented each month’s new releases. The webmaster stopped updating in 2007 and chose to leave the site up as an archive. Still accessible.

AppleJack’s My Little Pony Page — Contains collection pictures, Most Wanted lists, and artwork from an MLP fan named Tarah. Some links are broken (such as those for a collaborative chain fanfic and the Map of Ponyland webring). Unsure about date of origin. Still accessible.

Map of Ponyland — Navigation page for members of the webring of the same name. Site created in October 1998. Accessible via Wayback Machine.

The Pony Playhouse — A wealth of pony-related resources and activities by Tapestry. The games and music player were unfortunately Flash-based, and the craft images and button graphics wouldn’t load for me, but Tapestry’s collection pictures and free image archive are intact. Earliest capture is from around December 2001. Accessible via Wayback Machine.

Ribbons and Rainbows — Commentary, customs, and coloring pages by Dava. The pages on fandom controversies and pony restoration tips are particularly interesting. Copyright 2000–2001. Accessible via Wayback Machine.

Color the 80s — Coloring book scans from classic 80s cartoons. The MLP, Moondreamers, Lady Lovely Locks, Jem, Popples, and Care Bears links work. The earliest capture is from October 1999. Accessible via Wayback Machine.

Moondancer’s Dream — Collections, art, pony indexes, opinion essays, and more all framed like a story. Narrative passages and artwork allow the reader to explore the world and ‘meet’ characters. Earliest captures are from 2000–2001. Accessible via Wayback Machine.

Lullabye Nursery — Provides animated adopts for other MLP sites. Earliest capture is from 1999, but the October 2000 captures have the most adopts still visible. Accessible via Wayback Machine.

Main takeaway: GOD I wish I knew how to use html. I have zero (0) coding experience but Neocities tempts me every day.

I’m really in awe of these creators and feel almost jealous of the internet they inhabited. I was born when these websites were created, obviously I didn’t experience the internet culture that they did. They used a riot of pastel colors, they carefully edited box art illustrations as decor, they proudly displayed awards granted to them by their friends. All on websites they depended on each other to share. The creativity and camaraderie is beautiful. Are any of them still in touch now? Do they still think about each other? Have they used the skills they learned for anything since, or are they just a happy memory?

Most of the webmasters I saw chose to adopt a pony name as their own, using it as their online persona. (I even found links to a “pony name registry” where users could check to see if a name was available.) I found that an interesting contrast to MLP fans of today (as I remember watching MLP:FIM commentators who used their original ponysonas as their face online). Idk I just think that’s neat.

Another thing that’s shifted shifted since then? Adopts. In my time online an “adopt” has only ever been a character/character design you can purchase from an artist. On these sites they’re used like trading cards and help encourage users to visit their site of origin. That’s how I found the Lullabye Nursery at all! Other sites had adopt collections on display and Lullabye Nursery’s were by far the most popular. I would love to animate like that someday.

The way the webmasters treated the internet and their sites almost as physical locations fascinates me. You’re reading this post (thank you very much if you are!) and it’s just one of an ongoing stream of content being presented to you. My blog isn’t a Place. The internet has never been a location to me, only an ever-present tool I can carry around with me. These sites are fashioned as distinct islands with personality, using welcome messages and vivid descriptors of scenery and dialogue— Moondancer’s Dream is a prime example of that mentality. They talk about the web rings they are a part of as though each site is a stop on a guided tour. What changed?

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kids' show nostalgia stamps ! ✮ free to use ꩜ requested

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hello tumblr, i give you wii / wii play graphics

all f2u ♡

i love you wii fishing

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let me know what generations you'll defend with your life in the tags

there are borders i promise :D

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some g2 graphics made by a collector who went by morning glory. interestingly, they didn't "support the new ponies" (and i really wonder how they feel about the three subsequent generations now)

morning glory's site -> https://www.angelfire.com/de/morningglory/index.html

curlie (where i found the site) -> https://curlie.org/en

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even more free graphics (dividers) by cizzy! please check out their website it's a real time capsule

cizzy's site -> https://mylit.tripod.com/

curlie (where i found the site) -> https://curlie.org/en

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really adorable g1 pngs made by a swedish collector named cizzy! please check out their website it's a real time capsule

cizzy's site -> https://mylit.tripod.com/

curlie (where i found the site) -> https://curlie.org/en

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beatlemania is real and it happened to me

images sourced from wikimedia commons <3

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Fuck It, Internet Guide

Hey there! As social media becomes more and more inhospitible for the local user, I wanted to post some useful/fun links to just about anything I can think of! Enjoy! Also, if you'd like an invite to the P!rated Games discord, lmk! ^_^

If this post is useful to you PLEASE consider tossing some money my way? I am so freaking poor, kthnx.

I AM CURRENTLY STILL UPDATING THIS POST AND I WILL REBLOG IT WHEN I ADD TO IT! Feel free to comment things I've missed, I'm sure there's way more than this came from!

***MAJOR EDIT: I HAVE MOVED THESE LINKS***

These links have been moved to my website on Neocities. This way, I can more easily add and update this list (it's over 100 links long!) AS WELL AS add more detailed descriptions. Funnily enough, tumblr doesn't really like it when you try to edit an 100 link long blog post.

Updated as of April 2024 :D

Website is still in progress, don't mind the construction.

Links included are web centric (URL, generators, and archive collections), Knowledge Bases (like Libgen and The Eye, as well as open source projects from art museums), Art Tools (Krita and different tools), Music Tools and Discovery (radio sites and music searches based on what you already like), and fun stuff (like Gifypet and Flashpoint!) Below the Read More is images of all the links and their descriptions mentioned on my site!

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Windows 7 pop-up 99×56 stamp template.

Available area : 95×45

I was in a Y2K mood a few months ago, so I made this stamp template and... promptly forgot about it. Here it is, at last ! The second image was upscaled for easier viewing on Tumblr.

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Some coffee mug shaped stamps :3 technically not stamps but I thought they’d be funny. Lmk what I should put in place of stamps on some of these because they’re basically just fill in the blanks. Speaking of blanks

Go ahead and make your own! The fonts are Arial bold, Arial, and American Typewriter. However if you don’t feel like doing it, I wouldn’t mind making it for you just drop it in my ask box. If you do make one yourself tag me I’d love to see it! Or send it to me! Or d…don’t… I don’t,,, know,,, no credit needed also you just have to carry me in your heart always/j

Could I have just taken a mug image a stretched it? Yes but for some reason I had to draw my own,,, so they’re a little shoddy but who cares that gives them,, charm,,, also I made a Blinkie that I don’t like as much but is still fun

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assorted stamps w graphics from the wii wiki

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some digital art programs (i'm a krita person myself)

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intro & directory

hi! i got bit by the blinkie bug while decorating my artfight profile, so i made this blog to dump my self-indulgent web graphics :)

pretty much anything i make (tagged 'made by me') is free to use! if you do peel and stick something, let me know bc it will absolutely make my day. i do my best to give links and credits within my posts, but tell me if i've overlooked something.

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this might be a bullshit web of links and there's not a lot of content to organize yet but bear with me! categories below the break

broad categories

all blinkies all stamps all dividers all pngs/gifs/other images made by me (f2u) made by other awesome people (reblogs, etc) general resources

movies

all movies real genius star wars

tv

all tv pbs kids

video games

all video games wii

music

all music the beatles

art

all art-related graphics digital art programs

other interests

beanie babies my little pony

queer shit

all lgbt-related graphics lesbian herstory stamps

slogans

none yet!